The craziness I'm currently looking at: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45792620/edmund-j-cody-wife-killer-1992/

TW is applicable for the entirety of this thread.

Running down which wives were found. So far, I've found Geraldine who was identified 6 years after he beat her to death with a hammer and threw her body off an I65 ramp in Louisville, KY.

Letha's body was found stuffed in the trunk of a car in 1970 that had been towed to Edmund Cody's wrecking company after he got arrested for murdering William Love. (He also shot Flossie Crawley in the chest. She survived.) Letha had been strangled to death.

Ella Mae was both wife #1 and Wife #6. He divorced her originally, and after she became wife #6, she froze to death on a Henry County Farm after they divorced the second time.

Wife #4, Dorothy was shot to death by her ex-husband John, but Edmund had taken off before that happened.

Back in 1950, Edmund was found wounded in a car next to his dead girlfriend, Helen Mallette. Cops thought it was a murder-attempted suicide. Edmund was sentenced to 2-21 years for manslaughter in this case, but only served 3 years.

In 1945 he married a girl named Ruth (#2), and he claims he doesn't know her last name. In 1956 he married Mary Ann Rader(#3) in Nevada, but said he left after a few months.

#7 was a woman in Kentucky named Patricia who he was married to for 2 years and claims he doesn't remember her last name. She also "took off".

He married Evelyn (Parlsey?) Taylor in 1966, and she went missing within a month. As far as I've found, her body has never been found and she was never seen again.

So, the current list is:
Wife 1: Ella Mae Volis, M.1940-She left him -Divorce 1945
Girlfriend: Helen Mallette, 1950 - murdered
Wife 2: Ruth ? -M.1945 Unknown
Wife 3: Mary Ann Rader - M.1956 -He left her - Unknown fate
Wife 4: Dorothy Lee Schaffer - M.1958 - Murdered by ex 1958

Wife 5: "Some girl named Ann" - M.1958 - (Marriage lasted 2 weeks? Unknown fate)
Wife 6: Remarried Ella Mae Voils - froze to death in a field year unknown
Wife 7: Patricia ? - M. ? 2 year long marriage in Kentucky - Fate Unknown

Wife 8: Geraldine Bishop Wilkins - M.1960 - Murdered in June 1965 - Body identified 6 years later.
Wife 9: Evelyn (Parsley) Taylor - M.1966 - Married less than a month, body never found
Wife 10: Letha Gay Morrison - M.1969 Body found in May 1970 in car trunk.

Girlfriend: Flossie Crawley - Shot in the chest March 1970 - Survivied
Murdered: William Love - Shot March 1970

So... Those ladies with the no last names could be additional victims. And I highly doubt these are the only women he killed.

Holy crap.

He repeatedly tried to get parole! As far as I could find, it wasn't granted though. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45792547/edmund-j-cody-wife-killer-parole-1994/

Potential last name for Ruth is Kruse according to the entry on his crimes in the book "Historic Indianapolis Crimes: Murder & Mystery in the Circle City by Fred D. Cavinder written in 2010.